Besides these, there are chosen a town-clerk, a town-treasurer, a school-committee, assessors of taxes, overseers of the poor, constables, surveyors of highways, fence-viewers, and other officers.

All that amounts to a somewhat rebellious action for a bleary-eyed television viewer.

The remote control gives viewers the power to remove themselves from the storyteller's spell with almost no effort.

It allows a viewer to deconstruct the content of television media, and avoid falling under the programmer's spell.

If a viewer does get back around the dial to watch the end of a program, he no longer has the same captivated orientation.

Just as the remote control allowed viewers to deconstruct the content of storytelling, the joystick allowed the audience to demystify the technology through which these stories were being told.

They were chagrined by the flow of viewers away from television programming, but they hoped this shift could be managed and ultimately exploited.

When the viewer walks past a holograph she can observe the three-dimensional object over a course of time.

Efforts to package America's New War on news channels like CNN further alienated the more cynical viewers from the mainstream account of what had happened.

Other town officers are the surveyors of highways, who are responsible for keeping the roads and bridges in repair; field-drivers and pound-keepers; fence-viewers; surveyors of lumber, measurers of wood, and sealers of weights and measures.

[Sidenote: Fence-viewers.]

If the owners of contiguous farms, gardens, or fields get into a dispute about their partition fences or walls, they may apply to one of the fence-viewers, of whom each town has at least two.

The fence-viewer decides the matter, and charges a small fee for his services.

c. Fence-viewers.

The officers of the parish were the constable, the parish and vestry clerks, the beadle, the "waywardens" or surveyors of highways, the "haywards" or fence-viewers, the "common drivers," the collectors of taxes, and at the beginning of the seventeenth century overseers of the poor were added.

The officers of the Maryland hundred were the high constable, the commander of militia, the tobacco-viewer, the overseer of roads, and the assessor of taxes.

In course of time the elective offices came to include assessors and collectors, town clerk, highway surveyors, fence-viewers, pound-masters, and overseers of the poor.

On the master screen aboard the Tempest and in Richard Starlight's office, viewers watched the golden net disappear.

Sometimes he even became the unseen viewer of their rapturous exchanges, comforting Radha with sage remarks or egging her on to appease her hungry lover.

You are as fair, as if the morning bare ye, Imagination never made a sweeter; Can it be possible this frame should suffer, And built on slight affections, fright the viewer?

She was as one who stands apart, the viewer of some tremendous but uncomprehended event.